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  1. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  2. Aon Consulting
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Bill 168: Workplace violence and harassment: Ontario government proposes new legislation to Ontario's Health and Saftey Act
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    If the amendments to Ontarios Health and Safety Action, Bill 168, become law, a range of new obligations will be placed on employers, including assessing the level of risk of violence in a workplace, providing written policies to deal with the risk
  4. BC Nurses' Union
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. The Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Canadian Union of Public Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. The Changing Workplace
    Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
  8. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    With the ultimate aim of combatting racism within the labour movement, the Cross Cultural Communication Centre, under the auspices of the Humber Collage for Labour Studies, ran a ten-week, 30 hour pilot course entitled 'Work Racism and Labour.'
  9. Combatting Racism in the Workplace Readings Kit
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Readings and case studies on fighting racism.
  10. Common Sense for Hard Times
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
  11. Communist Dictatorship in Our Midst
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    A kind of undercurrent of thought about workplace democracy has bubbled beneath the surface of public discourse of our current "crisis of democracy." Beneath the surface: one can hardly identify any serious public discourse these days on the anti-democratic nature of most work under Neo-liberal conditions.
  12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  13. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
  14. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
  15. Counter-Planning on the Shop Floor
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  16. Anne Day -- Company of Women
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  17. Dual power at work
    When the workers make changes to their work environment without seeking management approval

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Rather than wait for the boss to give in to our demands and institute long-sought change, workers often have the power to institute those changes on our own, without the boss's say-so.
  18. Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
  19. Fighting Back on the Job
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  20. Fighting for Hope
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
  21. Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
  22. Human Resources Guide to Workplace Investigations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A comprehensive "how-to" manual for planning and executing a proper and fair workplace investigation.
  23. Human Resources Professionals Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  24. Institute for Work & Health
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  25. Is It Bullying? Is It Harassment? Is It Abuse Of Authority Or Is It Effective Management Designed To Get A Difficult Job Done?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    So has Mr. Elliott created or contributed to a negative and toxic atmosphere in the RCMP? Or is he getting the job he was hired to do done # but rattling a few chains by stirring up a hornets nest in the establishment? It's a tough question.
  26. Judging workers for control and profit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
  27. Howard A. Levitt (Lang Michener LLP, Lawyers)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  28. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  29. Mental Illness in the Workplace
    It Still Haunts

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  30. National Union of Public and General Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  31. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  32. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
  33. Ontario Nurses' Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  34. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
    Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
  35. Proletarian management: Informal workplace organization - Kämpa Tillsammans
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Interesting article about informal workplace organising, management tactics and suggestions for workers to build power on the job.
  36. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  37. Real Utopia
    Participatory Society for the twenty-first century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
  38. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  39. Red Menace #2
    Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  40. Research Shows Employers Need to Focus on Ways to Make the Generations Happy at Work
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Generations at work are showing increased job dissatisfaction, employers need to be focused on keeping the generations happy at work. The biggest threat to companies over the next decade will be the erosion and loss of their talent.
  41. Rubin Thomlinson LLP
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  42. Society of Energy Professionals
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  43. Soft Sell
    Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.
  44. 'Solidarity' and the Neo-Narodniks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  45. Sources welcomes Anne Day -- Company of Women
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Anne Day is the Founder of Company of Women, an organization that supports, connects and promotes women in business through monthly events, online and print directory, an extensive website, annual conference and quarterly magazine, Company.
  46. The Spy Who Fired Me
    The human costs of workplace monitoring

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Kaplan discusses the growing practice of employers monitoring the internet use of their employees.
  47. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  48. Towers Perrin
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  49. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
  50. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
    Resource Type: Book
    A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
  51. Us and Them
    Building a just workplace community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  52. What can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral , contrary to your conscience or religious beliefs
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown outlines what can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral, contrary to your conscience or religious belief.
  53. The Whistle-Blower as Deep Mole
    Spying on Malfeasance

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    There’s an intriguing idea based loosely on the turn-of-the-century union practice of "salting" a workplace. Salting consists of union activists secretly hiring into an anti-union shop in order to promote unionism from within.
  54. Work-Life Harmony Enterprises
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  55. Work and New Technologies
    Other Perspectives (Volume 3)

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
  56. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
  57. Workplace Bullying
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Where do workplace bullies come from? Is it possible that school yard bullies become workplace bullies? In my experience as a mediator, there are some scarily similar realities to what happens on the playground and in the corporate boardroom!
  58. Workplace Democracy
    A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the US and Europe

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  59. Wrongful Dismissal, Denial and Deflection - The Impact on Employees and the Organizational Culture
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The PSLRB ruling in the D. Tipple/PWGSC case gives us a look at the reality in PWGSC, the Federal Public Service and any organization where the culture is risk-averse and focused on blame-storming, denial and deflection. What is the cost of this?

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